Angelmonster

Written by Veronica Bennett

A teenage girl runs away with a radical poet, and her dreams turn to nightmares.

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240 pages· 780L

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In 1814, young Mary Godwin falls for the poet Percy Shelley and flees with him and her stepsister to Europe. Shunned by family and society and plagued by gossip, jealousy and tragedy, Mary is haunted by hideous visions until her dreams become nightmares. A novel of Mary Shelley's life on the eve of writing Frankenstein.

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Veronica Bennett’s lush reimagining of the life of Mary Shelley – on the eve of her authorship of the classic gothic novel Frankenstein – is a gripping story of love and obsession. In the spring of 1814, poet Percy Shelley enters the life of young Mary Godwin like an angel of deliverance. Seduced by his radical and romantic ideas, she flees with him and her stepsister to Europe, where they forge a hardscrabble life while mingling with other free-spirited artists and poets. Frowned on by family and society, persecuted by gossip, and plagued by jealousy, Mary becomes haunted by freakish imaginings and hideous visions. As tragedy strikes, not once but time and again, Mary begins to realize that her dreams have become nightmares, and her angel . . . a monster. Now the time has finally come for the young woman who would become Mary Shelley to set her monster free.

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